Senior Security Engineer, PKI & Secrets

About the role

The Security Foundations organization at CoreWeave keeps CoreWeave Cloud secure by design, from data centers and GPU fleets to the platform layers powering our customers' AI workloads. The PKI & Secrets team owns the cryptographic infrastructure underpinning the confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of CoreWeave's data and systems: PKI, secrets management, HSMs, key management, and code signing. We partner with teams across the company to deliver cryptographic services that are secure, reliable, and easy to use at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate PKI hierarchies, issuance policies, certificate lifecycle management, and trust distribution across Kubernetes clusters and bare-metal hosts.
• Manage and evolve secrets management platforms, including access policies, secret lifecycle governance, and integration patterns using External Secrets Operator and cert-manager.
• Operate and scale HSM infrastructure, including PKCS#11 integration, key ceremony procedures, and high-availability designs backing our certificate authorities and signing services.
• Contribute to the design of key management and data encryption solutions for internal and customer-facing use cases, including envelope encryption and KMS API design.
• Deliver PKI-based solutions supporting workload identity, mutual TLS, and hardware attestation.
• Maintain and extend code signing infrastructure for firmware images, UEFI binaries, container images, and application binaries.
• Develop and enforce cryptographic best practices and policies, and contribute to post-quantum cryptography readiness.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering or infrastructure engineering.
• Strong understanding of PKI concepts including CA hierarchies, certificate profiles, issuance policies, revocation, and trust distribution.
• Hands-on experience operating HashiCorp Vault or similar secrets management platforms in production.
• Experience with hardware security modules (HSMs), PKCS#11 interfaces, and key ceremony procedures.
• Solid understanding of applied cryptography: symmetric and asymmetric algorithms, digital signatures, envelope encryption, and TLS.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar languages, with the ability to build production tooling and automation.
• Experience with Kubernetes, including cert-manager, trust-manager, or External Secrets Operator.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional initiatives across infrastructure, platform, and product teams.

Preferred Experience

• Operating PKI backed by HSMs in a cloud provider or hyperscaler environment.
• Familiarity with code signing workflows (Authenticode, Cosign/Sigstore, transparency logs, timestamping).
• Experience with KMS design, including customer-managed keys and multi-tenant key isolation.
• Understanding of hardware attestation and workload identity (TPM, SPDM, SPIFFE/SPIRE).
• Exposure to post-quantum cryptography standards and migration planning.

Who You Are

You think deeply about how trust is established in complex distributed systems — and you enjoy making that infrastructure invisible to the teams that depend on it.

You're comfortable operating at multiple levels of abstraction, from HSM key ceremonies to Kubernetes operator design and developer experience.

You're a pragmatic builder who ships durable solutions in fast-moving environments.

Pay

The base salary range for this role is $165,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location.

Schedule

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption